Nice shot and informative blog post! Wouldn't like to be hitting the trails with all the gear though! I've always wanted to get some shots while snowboarding or mountain biking but never wanted to carry even just my SLR with me just because i fear it being a bit restrictive and also painful and expensive if I fall on it! How do you get arround that?

When doing stuff outdoors, I usually carry my gear in a pretty good weather resistant back pack, I also try scouting the location where I would like to shoot, so I have an idea, of the general light, distance to location, and what to pack, so your not carrying extra weight. I've tried shooting while we're out having fun, but all though is fun for me, is not so much for my friends, since there's somewhat of a prep time, lighting test and such, so I've learned to separate the 2. So if we want to shoot,t hen we plan a day for that specific purpose, so everyone is the same page. In this occasion, we were camping next to the location where we did the pictures, so we did it in between rides, while having some down time.